RICHMOND, Va. (WTVR) – There’s overwhelming support for medical marijuana and growing support for same-sex marriage in Virginia. This is all according to the latest poll from Quinnipiac University.

Support for medical marijuana has grown to 84 percent. Voters on both sides of aisle agree, three-quarters of Republicans are okay with marijuana being used as a treatment and 92 percent of Democrats approve.

Virginians are not so unified when it comes to marijuana for recreational use. Almost half of voters said marijuana is equally as dangerous as alcohol, 14 percent said it is more dangerous.

Same-sex marriage

Half of Virginia voters said they supported same-sex marriage and 42 percent are opposed.

This issue is much more divided than medical marijuana– 69 percent of Democrats approved of same-sex marriage, 70 percent of Republicans disapprove.

You may remember on Valentine’s Day of this year a federal judge declared Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriages unconstitutional. However, this issue has yet to be settled in court.

If you would like to read more of the poll for yourself, you can find it here.

Kathryn Leighton

While I would never use any drugs, including marijuana I support making it legal. See The types of people that lack the self-control to avoid things like this are the types who will drag society down. If these things are readily available maybe it would work on some “population control” that we need desperately. The winners will win either way. But this will just make the process easier.

Kathryn Leighton

I think, instead of worrying so much about making it easier to get high, we should start with laws to lower the punishment for victimless crimes like insider trading. Seems like you guys only worry about trying to hold down winners and getting high.